Jeffrey Blum
Research Assistant Technical Project Manager at McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Blum is a technical program manager, PhD candidate, and seasoned software developer with 12+ years delivering mobile and accessibility-focused systems across academia, startups, and Microsoft. He leads the IMAGE project at McGill, building audio-haptic tools to convey web graphics to people who are blind or low vision, and is ABD in ECE researching body-worn wireless sensing. Comfortable both knee-deep in C++/Objective-C code and setting long-term technical vision, he has shipped commercial mobile apps, led Pocket Outlook releases at Microsoft, and founded multiple product ventures. A privacy champion and Tor supporter, he pairs engineering chops with advocacy for accessible, privacy-preserving interfaces. Notably, his work has won awards (CIRA Impact Award, Mobiquitous best paper) and spans sensor systems, multimodal haptics, and tools for low-vision users. Bilingual Montreal-based dual U.S./Canadian citizen who blends rigorous research with practical product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate (in progress), Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Candidate (in progress), Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill UniversityBSE, Computer Science, BSE, Computer Science at Princeton University
English, French
Github Skills (70)
messenger10
java10
android10
kotlin10
signal10
ionic9
angular9
peer-to-peer9
react9
synchronization9
vue9
javascript8
mobile-web8
capacitor8
frontend8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shared-Reality-Lab/IMAGE-browser
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
IMAGE project browser extensions & client-side code
Contributions:12 reviews, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 years 2 months
firefoxbrowserclient-sidejavascriptchrome
jeffbl/pebble
Mar 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years
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